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Award Winners: AIYLA

Award winning fiction and nonfiction

About the AIYLA

The American Indian Youth Literature Award identifies and honors the very best writing and illustrations by Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of North America.

Winners (AI)

Indian No More by Charlene Willing McManis; Traci Sorell
Call Number: F M484c IND

ISBN: 9781620148396

Publication Date: 2019
Hearts Unbroken by Cynthia Leitich Smith
Call Number: 9781536213133

ISBN: 9781536213133

Publication Date: 2020
In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse by Joseph Marshall
Call Number: F M367j IN

ISBN: 9781419707858

Publication Date: 2015
How I Became a Ghost by Tim Tingle
Call Number: F T588t HOW Bk1

ISBN: 9781937054533

Publication Date: 2013
Killer of Enemies by Joseph Bruchac
Call Number: F B887j KIL

ISBN: 9781620141434

Publication Date: 2013
Between the Deep Blue Sea and Me by Lurline Wailana McGregor
Call Number: F M481l BET

ISBN: 0873362063

Publication Date: 2008
The Birchbark House by Louise Erdrich
Call Number: F ER66l BIR

ISBN: 9780786814541

Publication Date: 2002

Honor Books (AI)

The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Call Number: F D582c MAR

ISBN: 9781770864863

Publication Date: 2017
Dreaming in Indian by Lisa Charleyboy
Call Number: 704.0397 DRE

ISBN: 9781554516872

Publication Date: 2014
Danny Blackgoat, Navajo Prisoner by Tim Tingle
Call Number: F T588t DAN Bk1

ISBN: 9781939053039

Publication Date: 2013
If I Ever Get Out of Here by Eric L. Gansworth
Call Number: F G199e IFI

ISBN: 9780545417310

Publication Date: 2015